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GENUS I. BUTTERFLIES. 



S E C VU. S P. XLVÏ. CLIFDEN BLUE. 



PL 38. 



Adonis. Linnaeus. 



Clifden Blue. Harris. 

 This moft beautiful fpecies of butterfly was firft obferved and caught at Clifden in 

 Buckinghamfhire, and for that reafon has always retained the name of Clifden blue : how- 

 ever it is pretty common in various parts of England, and is to be taken on chalky pas- 

 tures. The flies .are -on the wing the middle of June ; and as they do not fly far from the 

 place where they are bred, and frequently fettle on the ground, they may be eafily taken 

 in this, the perfect ftate. The caterpillar is not at prefent known. For the male, fee 

 fig. 1 : the female, fig. 2 : and the under fide, fig. 3. 



S P. XLVII. DARK BLUE. 



Cimon. Linnaus. 



This is a veiy rare butterfly with us, and therefore it will be readily fuppofed our know- 

 ledge of its natural hiftory is very confined. The caterpillar is unknown. The laft 

 week in Auguft, 1793, I took two or three of the butterflies, flying in a pafture field at 

 the bottom of a hill near Bath. They were much wafted in colour, and appeared to have 

 been long on the wing ; whence we may fafely conclude, that they were firft out from 

 the chryfalides about the middle of July. The upper fide is represented at fig. 7 : the 

 under fide at fig. 6. 



S P. XLVIII. COMMON BLUE. 



Icarus. Linnaeus. 

 Common Blue. Harris. 

 The middle of May I found a caterpillar of this butterfly travelling along pretty quick 

 on the top of the grafs in a field : but as it was fmall, I did not fufpect it to be at the full 

 growth, and negle&ed to figure it in time. Two days afterwards it changed to chryfalis, 

 fufpending itfelf to the top of the cage by the tail, and the fly from it was produced the 

 firft week in June. The caterpillar was ihort and thick in its make, and of a pale green 

 colour. There are at leaft two broods of thefe butterflies annually ; or rather a confiant 

 fucceffion of them from June to September. They arc very common, and are to be feen 

 in almoft every Situation. The male is delineated at fig. 4: the female at fig. 5: the 

 under fide at fig. 8. 



